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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Those donations may have been made to PACs, but they still found their way into the hands of Madame Shrillary.

Her law firm, if it is like most, is mostly democrats. Yet 10 of the 24 people who got money from the PAC were republican. HER $415 donation went to one of the republicans, who in total got thousands of dollars.

It is the democrats in her firm who should be upset, as undoubtedly some of their money ended up going to republicans.

This has been explained on every thread that mentioned this canard about donations.

193 posted on 10/16/2005 9:53:32 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT; Stellar Dendrite; I got the rope; Luis Gonzalez; L.N. Smithee; flashbunny; ...
Some of those donations-if memory serves-were made when the loathsome Tony Coelho was in charge of the Democrats' money machine on Capitol Hill.

This culture flourished even during Ronald Reagan's two terms. When Reagan was elected and Republicans won the Senate, GOP activists urged business to donate more to their party. But a little-known California Democrat named Tony Coelho stopped them in their tracks. As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he reminded business lobbyists that his party still controlled the House and, with it, the committees and subcommittees through which any legislation would have to pass. At the same time, he worked to convince businessmen that Democrats, too, could deliver for them. During Reagan's first two years, Coelho tripled the DCCC's fundraising. So even as the Republican realignment chugged ahead, Democrats retained a rough parity on K Street.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html

This is not Coelho's first federal criminal probe. In 1989, Coelho, then a six-term congressman and House majority whip, resigned from Congress after reports surfaced that he had accepted a sweetheart loan from a troubled S&L operator. The loan helped Coelho buy a $100,000 junk bond, but he never reported it on his government disclosure form. The Justice Department decided not to bring charges against him.

http://slate.msn.com/id/1005051

225 posted on 10/16/2005 10:47:10 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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